UCLA LING 1 MIDTERM COMPREHENSIVE
COURSE REVIEW
◉ What continent has the greatest number of languages?
Answer: Asia
◉ unconscious/implicit knowledge
Answer: we have a finite set of building blocks and rules by which
we construct words, phrases, and sentences
◉ Phonetics
Answer: the inventory of sounds in our language
◉ Phonology
Answer: the sound patterns in language (what makes possible
sequences)
◉ Lexicon
Answer: mental dictionary of words
◉ Word
Answer: arbitrary pair of sound and meaning
,◉ Morphology
Answer: the study of the internal structure of words and the rules
for combining parts of words to make more complex words
◉ Morphemes
Answer: The smallest units of meaning in a language (ie writes ->
writer or writers)
◉ Syntax
Answer: rules that help put words together to form phrases and
sentences
◉ synonym
Answer: A word that means the same as another word
◉ antonym
Answer: a word that means the opposite of another word
◉ lexical ambiguity
Answer: when a word has multiple meanings
, ◉ syntactic ambiguity
Answer: when a sentence or sequence of words has multiple
meanings
◉ What does it mean to say human linguistic knowledge is creative?
Answer: we are able to produce and understand an infinite set of
novel utterances
◉ devices used to elongate sentences
Answer: prepositions, adjectives, conjunctions
◉ grammar
Answer: a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and
understand others
◉ competence
Answer: a speaker's knowledge of the rules of his/her language
◉ performance
Answer: how the knowledge of the language is utilized in real-time
◉ what affects our linguistic performance?
COURSE REVIEW
◉ What continent has the greatest number of languages?
Answer: Asia
◉ unconscious/implicit knowledge
Answer: we have a finite set of building blocks and rules by which
we construct words, phrases, and sentences
◉ Phonetics
Answer: the inventory of sounds in our language
◉ Phonology
Answer: the sound patterns in language (what makes possible
sequences)
◉ Lexicon
Answer: mental dictionary of words
◉ Word
Answer: arbitrary pair of sound and meaning
,◉ Morphology
Answer: the study of the internal structure of words and the rules
for combining parts of words to make more complex words
◉ Morphemes
Answer: The smallest units of meaning in a language (ie writes ->
writer or writers)
◉ Syntax
Answer: rules that help put words together to form phrases and
sentences
◉ synonym
Answer: A word that means the same as another word
◉ antonym
Answer: a word that means the opposite of another word
◉ lexical ambiguity
Answer: when a word has multiple meanings
, ◉ syntactic ambiguity
Answer: when a sentence or sequence of words has multiple
meanings
◉ What does it mean to say human linguistic knowledge is creative?
Answer: we are able to produce and understand an infinite set of
novel utterances
◉ devices used to elongate sentences
Answer: prepositions, adjectives, conjunctions
◉ grammar
Answer: a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and
understand others
◉ competence
Answer: a speaker's knowledge of the rules of his/her language
◉ performance
Answer: how the knowledge of the language is utilized in real-time
◉ what affects our linguistic performance?
